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Subject: Fwd: Ann Rhea Turk
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 17:12:44 -0400 (EDT)

BJ,

I am forwarding this message to the Rhea discussion list, as well as to the
authority on the Turk line. If we can't help you, maybe she can.

Pat
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Subj: Ann Rhea Turk
Date: 97-10-18 18:11:44 EDT
From: BJHat
To: PHHGENE

I am looking for information about my 4g-grandmother whose name we are not
sure of. Her name might have been Isabella Rhea. And some believe that she
was a sister of your Ann Rhea. I, however, believe that she might have been
a cousin of Ann's and that her name was, in fact, Isabella Rhea Paxton and
that her father was Samuel Paxton. I believe that her mother was a Rhea and,
indeed, one researcher shows that her mother was a Rachel Rhea. Isabella was
married to James McCleskey in 1782 (place unknown) and named one of her sons
James Rhea McCleskey. The Rhea name was carried down through several
generations of that family as a middle name. A grandson of Isabella's was
named Nathaniel (for his g-grandfather, Nathaniel Coats) Turk McCleskey (he
was my gg-grandfather). Several others had the middle name Turk, which leads
me to believe that there was a Turk (possibly Rachel Rhea's mother) in
Isabella's lineage. Isabella was born in Augusta Co., VA abt 1755. The
family of Isabella and James is known to have been in Wilkes Co., SC and
various counties in Georgia. I might add that some researchers believe that
Rhea was the name of a first husband, but I don't think that she would have
used her first husband's name as a middle name for a child by her second
husband. My research has shown that many families (notably that of Texas'
favorite son, Sam Houston) migrated from Augusta Co. and Rockbridge Co., VA
to Blount Co., TN and then possbily over into North Carolina then down to
South Carolina before moving over to Georgia and point west. If you have any
information that might help me, please respond to .

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